GED 530 - Disciplinary Literacy: Making Meaning in Equity-Centered Middle & Secondary Classrooms

Multiple literacies are essential for deep content understanding and engagement. They empower us to create equitable communities. GED 530 will examine how explicit, discipline-specific literacy instruction provides students with tools to access, analyze, and communicate information in our world. Scientific data, historical photographs, multimodal texts, and mathematical problems will be explored. As readers, writers, thinkers, and educators, we’ll consider how to prioritize equity, evolving definitions of literacy and texts, relationships between digital technology and literacy, diverse literacy needs and corresponding pedagogical strategies, and techniques for evaluating resources.

Credits: 3